Monday, August 18, 2014

Review - The Thirteen

The Thirteen
Susie Maloney
Adult Urban Fantasy
1/5 Stars




This book was so confusing to read that I only made it through the prologue and a couple chapters before blinking my eyes rapidly and tossing it to the side to start a different one.

The premise is a good one – witches in a small community doing witchy things. The follow-through leaves a lot to be desired, however – especially in the department of editing.

Excerpt:
A confusing sentence from the prologue:

Not even when the flames swept up from the floor and began their climb over her
surrender your
flesh.
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The book is lacking in periods and grammatical punctuation in general. It's also overflowing in brackets with ridiculously useless information, stopping the flow of the story.

The editing was sub-par and many sentences had repeating words with no proper sentence structure. There were also a multitude of incomplete, short sentences. How anyone could make it through the entire book is beyond me. I cannot fathom how it ever got published in the first place, let alone got such a rave review from The Globe and Mail.

Moloney also takes the time out at the end of her book to thank her editor:

Most of all I want to thank the surely supernatural Anne Collins, who edits with elegance and respect, and whose patience and dedication really wrote this book.
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I think a certain editor needs to find a new job.


The book could have had the most amazing plot ever written – but you would never know for the ridiculous way it's put together.

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